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Getting recognition from Linux / Part Two - Recognizing Haiku

Article contributed by Idefix on Tue, 2011-02-22 22:40

This article was written when Ubuntu 10.10 was the latest version. Starting with Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), Haiku should be recognized out of the box. Just run sudo update-grub to add it to the GRUB menu.

When I switched from Windows to Ubuntu, not only did I wonder why it wouldn't recognize the BFS file systems, but also why Windows would automatically get added to the GRUB menu, but Haiku wouldn't.

Getting recognition from Linux / Part One - Recognizing The Be File System

Article contributed by Idefix on Wed, 2011-01-26 12:11

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This article was written when Ubuntu 10.10 was the latest version. Starting with Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), BFS file systems should be recognized out of the box.

Late 2009 I made the switch from Windows to Ubuntu as my primary operating system. During the first weeks of using it, I began to wonder why it would recognize my old Windows file system on the hard disk but not the BFS file systems. The partitions were correctly recognized as BeOS BFS (0xEB) and I could mount them from the command-line with mount -t befs /dev/sda5 /media/Haiku, but they didn't show up in the Places menu or elsewhere in the system.